Halifax books and authorsA series of articles on the books written by natives and residents, ancient and modern, of the parish of Halifax (stretching from Todmorden to Brighouse) . s in York HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 17 Minster Library, and also a Reply to theCharge, London, 1695, quarto. ^.tterburyVindicated the Popery Sermon, Barbeyractranslated the Sermons into French, Beausobre(1728); and D^Albiac (1706), translated othersinto French. The earlier sermons were alsopublished in Low Dvitch and in 1694 in HighDutch. Nahum Tate and Samuel Wesley publishedpoems on the death of Dr. Tillotson, an


Halifax books and authorsA series of articles on the books written by natives and residents, ancient and modern, of the parish of Halifax (stretching from Todmorden to Brighouse) . s in York HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 17 Minster Library, and also a Reply to theCharge, London, 1695, quarto. ^.tterburyVindicated the Popery Sermon, Barbeyractranslated the Sermons into French, Beausobre(1728); and D^Albiac (1706), translated othersinto French. The earlier sermons were alsopublished in Low Dvitch and in 1694 in HighDutch. Nahum Tate and Samuel Wesley publishedpoems on the death of Dr. Tillotson, andBishop Burnet preached his funeral sermon. In 1748 he had become a Though holdingthe incumbency of El land until 1762, he lesigned School in March, 1753, and \je»-came a tutor at Cambridge, being created months later. The Duk© of Newcastlegave him the vicarage of Damerham in Will-ahire, which in 1766 he exchanged for vStaus-field , Suffolk, which he held wih tiinrectory of Lawford in , besides hie Wo ilwardian Professorship, to which he had Openappointed in 1764. These threj emoluments heheld until his death in March, 1778. He wa». X.—REV. SAMUEL OGDEN, Dr. Ogden was a native of Manchester, wherehe was born in July, 1716. There was a monu-ment in the Cathedial to his parents,—lysfather, Thomas, dying in 1766, aged 75. Samuelwas educated at Cambridge, and was ordaineda deacon at Chester in 1740, and in 1741, haviiigtaken the degree, a priest at Bugden In 1744 he became MastTof Halifax Grammar School, and was appointedcurate (or incumbent as we should say) of Co!eywhich he relinquished in 1747 for Elland Church buried at St. Sepulchres, Cambridge. In1758 be published two sermons preached beforethe University. Dr. Halifax, who edited hieworks, says there was a rusticity in his ad-dresses that disgusted strangers, and notwith-standing the sternness and even ferocity of hi»countenance, iie was a most huma


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